Get a small table to set next to your desk for the receiver. Seriously, $5 at Salvation Army or something. > On Apr 26, 2015, at 3:58 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > As I said in my subject, I don't want to turn anyone off from reading this > e-mail. If you genuinely think you can help, just know, no suggestion is > stupid. Especially considerring that I've tried everything under the son. > At this point, I'm willing to try literally just about anything including > throwing the mac across the room, then screaming! LOL! > > So, a little bit of very brief background. I have a Dell computer which > apparently has just bitten the dust. It's about 10 years old. This really > isn't rellavent more so than to say I just put it in storage until I figure > out what to do with it. I also have a Yamaha hifi dolby/prologic surround > sound 5.1 receiver. This receiver has an ethernet port on the back of it > which allows you to connect it to an internet wired connection for things > like Pandora, Spottify, etc. Get to the point, Chris, you say. I am, I am, > I promise. Stick with me on this. Just hear me out for a sec as this is > actually incredibly rellavant to my problem. > > So, here's the issue. The receiver doesn't have wifi capability. It's > stricly only able to connect to a network via a hardwired ethernet > connection. Well, this would be all fine and dandy except for one thing. > > I don't have room on my desk with my router to set the receiver up. > Therefore, I had to set the receiver up across the room beside that old > busted Dell machine. Due to home regulations set by my landlord, I cannot > tack anything to the walls, nor use double sided tape, or anything of the > sort, nor can I tack anything across my ceiling. Therefore, there went using > a token ringed topology, let alone a PTP host/client configuration. > Therefore, what I was doing was connecting via wifi to my home network's > router across the room. This supplied internet connectivity to me on the > Dell machine. Then what I did was, I ran an ethernet cable from the on board > ethernet port on the back of the Dell tower to the ethernet port on my Yamaha > receiver. Then, finally, in Windows XP, I was able to go under Control > Panel, Networks, select both my wifi connection as well as my ethernet > connection, hit the application's key, or rather, right click, same thing, > and then select bridge connection from the context menu. Once done, it made > my wifi connection carry down to my ethernet port. So, in other words, as > long as I have an internet connection on my wifi end, then whatever got > plugged into the ethernet port hardwired used that exact same connection. > > So, now that the Dell system has gone to its grave, and is there rotting, > LOL! just kidding, seriously though, I'm trying to achieve this same exact > thing with Yosemite 10.10.3. No matter what the heck I do though, try as I > may, I just can! not! seem to get this to work. > > So far, I went into System Preferences, Sharing. Under here, I first > selected the internet sharing service in the table. Then, making sure the > box in the first column of that table row was unchecked, I moved down and set > the share from popup button to wifi. Then, in the share to table, I made > sure that the only thing checked was ethernet. Then, I went back to the > services table, checked the box beside the Internet sharing service, and > started up the service. > > I should add that all the above things were done while the ethernet cable was > plugged in both to the mac, and to the receiver. > > I then tried getting the receiver to go out online via internet, but it > wouldn't. I wondered if something got turned off in the receiver's menus, so > I tested with an old laptop I have which doesn't even have wifi ability, only > ethernet. It didn't work there either, so trust me. It's not the receiver > here that's at fault. > > I went back to System Prefernces, then to network. I noticed that the first > service in the table was eithernet, not wifi, even though wifi is my primary > means to connect. Therefore, I went to the actions popup button, and to > service order, I think it's called... something to that effect. Using the > Voiceover's drag and drop abilities, I dragged the connections around and got > them so wifi was first, then Ethernet was second. This way, wifi takes > higher priority. This didn't fix the issue. > > Next, still in network settings, on the ethernet connection, I noticed though > connected, it said that it had a self assigned IP address, and will not be > able to connect to the internet. The IP address it's showing is: > 169.254.105.163. Obviously, from another machine on my network than the mac, > if I try pinging this address, it times out instantly. I can't even do a > tracert query. It doesn't even complete the first hop if I do. Under > Network Settings on the mac, on the Ethernet connection in the table, the > IPV4 settings are set to DHCP, however, I tried DHCP with manual address, and > entered that in by hand. I've even tried going to manual in the popup > button, and entering everything totally! by hand such as the IPV4 address, > the router address, the dns server address, which is the same as my router, > being my router is serving as my DHCP server to all clients on the network. > I've released and renew the dns IP, but it just comes back to the same IP as > above. 169.154.X.X isn't even within the subnet range of my router, which is > within 192.168.X.X. My router IP is: 192.168.1.1. For future reference, > this router is a Linksys WRT1900AC with Linksys Smart Wifi as its web admin > interface. > > I tried turning off internet sharing, rebooting, making sure no active wifi > connection was in progress, and that my ethernet cable was disconnected from > the mac, then turned on network sharing making sure it was set up from wifi, > and to ethernet. Then, I plugged the ethernet cable back in. NO good, I > still got the self assigned IP listed above. The 169.154.105.163. I tried > looking at the mac address settings on my router, etc. and they all look > fine. There are no conflicting IP's on the network's subnet either. I made > sure when manually enterring things, that my subnet masc was 255.255.255.0. > Still no good. > > I've gone in and removed the ethernet service from system prefs, network, > then readding it. My location is set to automatic, although I tried making a > brand new location just to see if that would help. It didn't. > > I created a new user account on the system, logged in as it, and had the same > issue, so it's not an issue with my user account being corrupted a bit. I > ran disc permission check/repair from the recovery partition, and all was > fine there. When I verified permissions, they all came back as being > perfectly intact correctly. > > Finally, at my whit's end, I went into terminal, and executed > > ifconfig -l > > I noticed that all my network adaptors look correct, and seem to be > functioning. > > I then attempted to stop internet sharing with: > > sudo launchctl unload -w\ > /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.InternetSharing.plist > > Apparently, that plist file no longer is there in Yosemite like it was in > Mavericks. BTW, I dono if this would a worked in Yosemite, what I'm trying > to do. I never had a need to try, as back then, I just bridged with my > Windows machines. > > Finally, I turned off Internet Sharing again from the GUI, not the CLI. I > restarted, then went back to terminal. > > I then issued > > ifconfig -l > > I determined that my ethernet and my wireless adaptors are on en0, and en1. > > Therefore, I typed: > > sudo ifconfig bridge create > > this created a bridge called bridge0. > > I then proceeded to add those two interfaces to the bridge... > > sudo ifconfig bridge0 addm en0 addm en1 > > This seemed to work correctly. > > I don't recall where I found the file, but it was under /etc. I found a conf > file which did show the two adapters attached to the bridge. I know this is > really a piss poor way to do this, as then, I'd have to recreate the bridge, > and re-add the interfaces manually by hand. I'll fix that later with a cron > job which I'll place in the default system profile via a shell script, but I > can't do that until I get things working to start with. LOL! Right now, > doing that is the least of my concerns! > > Anyway, after doing this, I tried to see if I had any success. Of corse, go > figure, I didn't. > > So, yeah, I'm totally outta options. I've even gone into my router and > changed the dns/dhcp settings so they matched what OSX is automatically > giving that stupid ethernet connection. Obviously, this meant having to > reconfigure all other clients on my network which was a royal pain in the > ass! I diddit though, so you can't say I didn't try! Ha ha. Lord though! > Even that! didn't work! > > Folks, I'm throwing my hands in the air! I give the heck up! I dono what's > left to do! I literally! have tried every ***ing thing under the sun that I > know to try! > > Any thoughts would be profoundly appreciated. If you can help me get this > working, I'm so determined, I'll even be willing to put a tip on my blog on > how to properly set up bridging, and you better believe I'll give you public > credit by name! > > OK guys, have at it! See if you can figure this one out! Eat your hearts > out! 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